i think we should keep using it but for a totally different reason. now with every deer you get a perfectly good bucktail. there is no cheap sub as readily availible as deer hair. theres just too many uses. so if we keep using deer we are going to keep having a suppy of bucktails. i dont see any point wasting the bucktails for a synthetic alternative when they come with something that we do need, and you can still use bucktail for a pattern just as deadly as many others. so the way i see it, is there any reason why we should abandon bucktails?